CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Youre under this pressure unless youve given up and relinquished responsibility for formulating the organizations technology vision to a chief digital officer, chief technology officer, or some other titled individual whose job is to make promises you as CIO are supposed to keep. Dont do that.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Software development and IT Cognition released Devin, billed as the worlds first AI software engineer, in March last year. But there are already some jobs specifically in the software development lifecycle poised to be aided by AI agents. Weve developed our own agentic AI for code management, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2025

His area of responsibility expanded to include business operations, processes, and IT, as well as partner network and commercial functions. Before joining SAP, Steinhuser worked at Boston Consulting Group. SAP introduced a new CTO and two new chief revenue officers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Years ago, the CTO most often led the infrastructure function.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“By explaining the concepts behind AI in a clear manner, the business leader can be introduced to the building blocks for AI, and the IT leader can develop an acceptable strategy,” advises Nidal Haddad, principal at business advisory firm Deloitte Consulting. Yet these topics are often foreign to most business leaders. “It

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A lack of AI expertise is a problem, however, when other company leaders often turn to CIOs and other IT leaders as the “go-to people” for solving AI problems, says Pavlo Tkhir, CTO at Euristiq, a digital transformation company. “A Until employees are trained, companies should consult with external AI experts as they launch projects, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

With C-suite leaders under increasing pressure to align technology with strategic objectives, many experience that roles — whether CEO, CFO or even CTO — lack the deep technical insight needed to bridge the gap between business and technology. The CEO sets the vision and ensures business success.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Consulting firm McKinsey Digital notes that many organizations fall short of their digital and AI transformation goals due to process complexity rather than technical complexity. Data architecture components A modern data architecture consists of the following components, according to IT consulting firm BMC : Data pipelines.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Generative AI has seen faster and more widespread adoption than any other technology today, with many companies already seeing ROI and scaling up use cases into wide adoption. Vendors are adding gen AI across the board to enterprise software products, and AI developers havent been idle this year either.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Underutilized and/or overprovisioned resources are among the biggest contributors to high cloud costs, says Shreehari Kulkarni, principal consultant with global technology research and advisory firm ISG. Optimizing resources based on application needs is essential to avoid setting up oversized resources, he states.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

According to experts and other survey findings, in addition to sales and marketing, other top use cases include productivity, software development, and customer service. Use case 2: software development PGIM also uses gen AI for code generation, specifically using Github Copilot. Youve got that down to a science, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 31, 2024

You wouldnt hire someone who doesnt know how to write code to develop your software, so why would you expect a project manager or business analyst to drive change management? Change management is a specialized discipline, just like business analysis, user experience development, or business analysis.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 25, 2024

Jim Chilton is an award-winning CIO who serves as the chief technology officer of Cengage Group, an innovative disruptor in the edtech space. As a business and technology executive, Chilton leverages his unique experiences to drive innovation and optimize technology throughout the company.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. The company has approximately 800 staff in total across the business. I had been at Google for so long that I stopped counting,” she says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As technologies evolve, CIOs still need to build mutual commitment and support for IT initiatives,” says tech consultant and author Gerald Leonard. By providing worthwhile tools, the IT department allows the business to respond to opportunities quickly, while at the same time mitigating risk.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Case in point was the high turnover rate at road and highway maintenance company AVR Group, and the solutions enacted by its CTO Pierangelo Perdomi to remedy it. So smart working was introduced at AVR last year in the technology business unit with a different supplementary contract for different groups.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2024

As SVP and CTO for the Boston Red Sox, Brian Shield is responsible for the strategic direction of technology, fan engagement, day-to-day IT operations, and cybersecurity in support of the team, their fans, and Fenway Sports Management. Fundamental to each player’s success is a development plan that is unique to that individual player.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2025

It was an interesting case study of global cyber impact, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre. In a countersuit, CrowdStrike blamed Delta for the airlines problems, saying that other airlines were able to recover much faster, and that the contract between the two companies meant Delta wasnt allowed to sue for damages.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

While that is true, your development teams may not be ready to implement yet. Development teams starting small and building up, learning, testing and figuring out the realities from the hype will be the ones to succeed. Even at fractions of a penny per token, this ends up being tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2025

AI concierges will follow the buyer, instead of being linked to a specific seller, enabling them to learn and develop a deep understanding of the customers preferences and lifestyle. Imagine walking into a store where every shelf magically knows exactly what you need before you do, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 15, 2022

Its weather-related services can be as simple as helping utilities predict short-term demand for energy, or as complex as advising maritime transporters on routing ocean-going cargo ships around developing storms. Very little innovation was happening because most of the energy was going towards having those five systems run in parallel.”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Chief technology officers are key players in the enterprise C-suite, oftentimes working in collaboration with CIOs at the forefront of new and innovative technologies. They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2025

Forty percent of IT leaders specifically overseeing software development at their organizations say they fear acknowledging their mistakes, according to a recent report by digital transformation provider Adaptavist. This behavior has been prevalent in recent years, with commonplace layoffs, adds Jon Mort, Adaptavists CTO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

CIOs and business executives must collaborate to develop and communicate a unified vision aligning technology investments with the organization’s broader goals. Too often, companies adopt innovative technologies based on market hype without fully understanding how they contribute to their business.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Steve Ross, director of cybersecurity for the Americas at S-RM Intelligence and Risk Consulting, says gen AI can reduce a day’s worth of research to a single hour, but not without a catch. “It The AI can go deeper than a Google search.” After all, today’s generative AI tools are general-purpose, and in their early stages.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Both types of gen AI have their benefits, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO. Weve developed our software such that the LLM open source or proprietary can be swapped in or out via configuration. Kong, which surveyed developers about their API use, found a similar balance, with OpenAI at 27%, Llama at 8%, and Mistral at 4%.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

I know every answer, agrees Dave Curtis, CTO at RobobAI. But no one especially in technology knows everything. Sort decisions by their complexity and impact There are two things you have to consider: the urgency and the importance of the decision, says Efrain Ruh, field CTO for Continental Europe at Digitate.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Merv Adrian is a Research Vice President following RDBMS, NoSQL, Hadoop and other big data technologies as digital business transforms assumptions about how to activate and leverage unused information assets. During hos two decades as an analyst, Mr. Adrian headed IT Market Strategy, an independent market research consultancy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Yet unlike his peers, Wiedenbeck’s dual roles — the top technology executive as well as the transformation lead at Ameritas — are often at odds. As chief technology officer, Wiedenbeck is driving automation and IT modernization to reduce complexity and technical debt.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

“Today’s CIOs inherit highly customized ERPs and struggle to lead change management efforts, especially with systems that [are the] backbone of all the enterprise’s operations,” wrote Isaac Sacolick, founder and president of StarCIO, a digital transformation consultancy, in a recent blog post.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 27, 2022

Too often, technology companies pay consulting or analyst firms to create metrics based on the best characteristics of their offerings,” says Judith Hurwitz, CEO of Hurwitz Strategies, an emerging technology consulting firm. Today, many CIOs feel the same way about metrics. Metrics are only as good as their source.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As of today, AI development companies have signed contracts to purchase more than $4 billion of AI training capacity in Oracle’s Generation 2 cloud. In the current quarter we expect our Cerner Health business to be awarded two large new contracts with a total value of over $1 billion,” Ellison added.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

Those include AI, data-centric design, systems that can be used off the shelf, functions that augment decisions, developer enablement, and customer-facing technology. On-premises ERP is seen as “not as scalable as people thought,” says Sharon Bhalaru, partner at accounting and technology consulting firm Armanino LLP.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves. This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. Strategies to transform IT for digital success include the following.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Merv Adrian is a Research Vice President following RDBMS, NoSQL, Hadoop and other big data technologies as digital business transforms assumptions about how to activate and leverage unused information assets. During hos two decades as an analyst, Mr. Adrian headed IT Market Strategy, an independent market research consultancy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2024

The Responsible AI Institute has launched an AI policy template designed to help enterprises develop their own company-wide responsible AI policies. RAI Institute described the template as an “industry-agnostic, plug-and-play policy document” that allow organizations to develop policies that are aligned with both business needs and risks.

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